Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf
Naomi R. Wolf is an American author, journalist and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 November 1962
CountryUnited States of America
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I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.''s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian''s hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.
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Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'
risk documentary-films documentaries
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.
strong smart democracy
It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
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The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
baby war feminist
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Democracy is disruptive. Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for this, but there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. Protesters ideally should read Gandhi and King and dedicate themselves to disciplined, long-term, non-violent disruption of business as usual - especially disruption of traffic.